Leah Williams
The days of Europe serving as the spawning habitat for so many great diesel cars are coming to a close. In another example of the tectonic shift underway in the auto industry, Stellantis will transition its plant in Tremery, France, from the production of diesel engines to electric powertrains.
Do you hear that? It’s the last dying breaths of Adobe Flash, which might finally be rendered obsolete by Mozilla’s release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday.
We’re now three trading days into some frothy drama between Reddit and Wall Street over the rocketing price of GameStop stocks.
The rollout of covid-19 vaccines in the U.S. is finally starting to pick up steam, but as vaccination becomes more common, the antivax movement is pulling its same old tricks. The latest disturbing trend: blaming the coronavirus vaccine for deaths, illnesses, or injuries without any solid evidence.
We talk about ice a lot here on Earther — or more specifically, the growing absence of it. A new study puts what’s happening to the planet in striking perspective. While I can tell you the results show 1.2 trillion tons of ice disappeared every year since 1994, it’s a…
Data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe has allowed scientists to estimate the depth of Kraken Mare — the biggest methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan.
In addition to a show-within-a-show, each of WandaVision’s episodes has featured vintage-inspired commercials advertising fictional products. In some way, they all allude to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe outside the warped bubble reality of Westview where Wanda Maximoff and Vision are now living. But do we really need them to…
When a colossal plume of ash and lava exploded from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, few people probably had their minds on the animal life in the area, much less one species of rodent. The Pinatubo mouse was feared extinct after the eruption, but 30 years later, it…
On Monday, Target U.S. became the latest retailer to stop selling Chaokoh coconut milk, according to a statement from PETA. In recent months, the animal rights organisation has led a boycott campaign against Chaokoh claiming that it uses forced monkey labour to manufacture its product.
Things are a bit better. They’re still not great. Do you need another new refuge of enjoyable entertainment and simple pleasure to bury yourself in, away from the world? Head to the library.
The new normal for California is no normal.
There’s a famous story (also proven false) that NASA spent millions of dollars inventing a pressurised pen that could work in the zero gravity of space, while Soviet cosmonauts just used pencils. A new lens filter for cameras with a mirror finish allowing subjects to see themselves feels like the…
A lot of device makers like to throw the word “Pro” around to attract people looking for more premium devices, but when it comes to the $US2,500 ($3,245) Xperia Pro, Sony really means it.
Richard Kelly still wants to get his Rod Serling biopic off the ground — and a sequel to Donnie Darko. Gaten Matarazzo teases big scares for the next season of Stranger Things. Plus, Jeff Nichols talks about his Alien Nation reboot, and what’s to come on Nancy Drew and Charmed….
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and an unofficial advisor to former president Donald Trump, was permanently booted from Twitter late Monday. Why? Lindell was reportedly spreading too many lies about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, something that can still get you banned from Twitter.
One of the neat things about being a member of the Writer’s Guild of America is that sometimes you get screeners of movies being submitted for the Oscars. One of the less neat things is that you also often get sent book galleys containing a movie’s script, because unless you’re…
Four stars in the night sky have been formally recognised by their Australian Aboriginal names. The names include three from the Wardaman people of the Northern Territory and one from the Boorong people of western Victoria. The Wardaman star names are Larawag, Wurren and Ginan in the Western constellations Scorpius,…
Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti’s Palm Springs might have been our favourite new movie of 2020. That could partially be because it didn’t have a ton of competition in that area, but also because it’s a nerdier, more adorable, and somehow less cynical Groundhog Day tale, one that was a…
In a fascinating example of the physical world entering the digital and then hurtling itself back out again, the now-famous photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders looking like a petulant seventh-grader waiting for his mum to pick him up after band practice is now a 3D-printable trinket.
The Mythbusters proved that shooting bullets in a dramatic curve like Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy did in the movie Wanted is actually impossible. But tiny foam balls? That’s very doable with the latest additions to Nerf’s Rival blaster line.
Well, that didn’t take long. Two weeks after Dragonlance co-creators and authors of its most famous novels, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, voluntarily dismissed their $US10 ($13) million lawsuit against Wizards of the Coast for messing with their plans to write a new book trilogy set in the beloved Dungeons…
Imagine that you were granted one wish, and that wish were that America got to watch a real-world Hollywood switcheroo involving Jeff Bezos and an Amazon warehouse worker. And now hold onto that pleasant thought so you can stomach this news: According to a new Oxfam study, the spare change…
The covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna can likely fend off worrying variants of the coronavirus first found in the UK and South Africa, the company announced Monday. Moderna’s preliminary data appears to show that its covid-19 vaccine produces a strong immune response to these variants. However, the company still intends…
Marvel’s comics universe has recently been tied up with a number of large-scale, multi-book events like X of Swords and King in Black, that both promised world-changing stories whose climaxes would forever change how we saw certain characters. But the House of Ideas is already ramping up for its next Big…
When Fitness+ launched last month, one of the big omissions was the lack of audio-guided outdoor walks or runs — a staple in other fitness and wellness apps like Peloton, Calm, and Aaptiv. Well, you still can’t run (yet) but today, Apple’s introducing guided walks to the service in an…
Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took it for a video game, but then realised the sound materialised even when my roommate was asleep. For days, I wondered about this. At any point…
February is stacked full of Mars-related events for space fans, including three Mars missions and a conjunction between the Moon and the Red planet.
Later this year we’ll see a new crop of MacBook Pros. According to analysts and sources its getting a big overhaul, including the return of the SD card reader.
When was the last time you stumbled on a vintage car in a basement? Never? Yeah, me either. But that’s exactly what happened to Jeryl Schriever and Alex Huppe when they found a 1916 Saxon Model 14.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been approved by the TGA for use in Australia with a rollout expected to begin in late February.
Tesla is reportedly taking one of its former employees to court over allegedly stealing company information and breaching contract, CNBC reports.
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It’s been twenty years since Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, the favoured movie of moody teenage boys everywhere. Which makes it a good time to learn a bit new about it.
